After jumping through a wormhole and landing onto this forsaken planet far from home, you are standing in front of a huge interstellar Casino where everyone plays air hockey for a living! Plug your Oculus Rift (or not!) and master the finest Shufflepucking techniques!

December 1, 2014

Ladies and Gentleman, Clean up your Rifts!
The upcoming major update will bring you Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe VR on 5 Dec 2014.
(Look at the game's release date for a funny fact!)

Quote from a lucky early reviewer:
"There are good VR games, and there are others... Good ones are designed to work on VR from the start, Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe VR seems to be one of the firsts. Agharta Studio succeded at sublimating its game sceneries and ambiance, this little title may not look much but promises to be one of the first VR successes!"
- factornews.com

Reviews

Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe VR

"There are good VR games, and there are others... Good ones are designed to work on VR from the start, Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe VR seems to be one of the firsts. Agharta Studio succeded at sublimating its game sceneries and ambiance, this little title may not look much but promises to be one of the first VR successes!"
- factornews.com

"The results are impressive. We can scan the whole scenes while moving the head, and we keep stopping at details we never noticed before, like those UI windows. We almost feel like we can touch them! The same goes for characters, you can't prevent to look at them at every possible angle."
- jeuxvideo.fr

Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe

"Once upon a time, when Apple and Commodore were personal computer rivals, Brøderbund Software released a little game called Shufflepuck Café. If you played that game back in the day, prepare for an overload of nostalgic air hockey goodness. If this is your first trip to the Shufflepuck Cantina, well, nostalgia won’t do anything for you, but the air hockey goodness sure will!"
- VGBlogger.com

"Hop over to Steam and pick up your copy as soon as it unlocks. The game is loads of fun to play and works great whether you have 5 minutes or a whole afternoon!"
- geekbeat.tv

"It's an excellent surprise with a big life span. The game looks really nice too."
90% - Canard PC

"To be clear, I loved Shufflepuck Cafe when it came bundled with my Amiga 500 in the late 80′s, and this hits all my nostalgia buttons without the “not as good as I remember” feelings."
88% - honestgamesreviews.com

"Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe is highly recommended. This is a nice year-end surprise that a simple game of Air Hockey is something challenging with many special moves and content that never get the player bored."
86% - game4me.be

"Shufflepuck Cantina took the original and brought it up to 2013 standards. I’m sure Shufflepuck Cafe fans would have been more than happy with a straight remake but Agharta did a fantastic job of making a modern Shufflepuck game while retaining the spirit of the original."
80% - etgeekera.com

"All together Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe lives up to the legacy of its predecessor in every way. It’s an easy to play game within a mostly well rounded gameworld and will have you playing for hours on end."
80% - realgamernewz.com

"Your opponents are varied and it takes time to learn how to defeat them while a steady stream of unlocks will keep you coming back for more. Whether you want to play for a few minutes or a few hours, Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe is a good choice."
80% - GAMERamble.com

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About This Game

Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe VR is also very enjoyable without a VR headset!
Note: In case the game fails to launch, switch to the winopengl version in BETAS tab.

After "accidentally" jumping your spaceship through a wormhole, you’ve crash landed onto this forsaken desert planet a billion kilometers from home. The only thing between you and the horizon is the seemingly endless dunes of sand, save for one strange, huge building. Inside, it appears to be an interstellar Casino where everyone plays air hockey for a living.

You’ll have to fight hard to grind down all your opponents until they are utterly defeated to earn the critical parts needed to repair your ship. Once you’ve obtained all the spaceship pieces you’ll have to defeat the owner of this insane Casino so you can go home.

Shufflepuck Cantina is easy at the start, perhaps a little too easy, but it has charm. Once you get to the 2nd floor, the training mitts come off and you realize there is some challenge to this game after all.

The gameplay is deceptively simple. The controls boil down to moving your mouse and clicking your primary mouse button. However, each character has their own special skill, and each round includes its own distractions to overcome. The progression of this game is actually very addictive, and the only reason I wanted to quit playing was so I could go to sleep.

This is a solid arcade title -- it looks nice, controls well, has basic but satisfing gameplay (it's air hockey) with a few twists like special moves or unlockable upgrades. On top of regular matches against AI opponents, there are challenges with special win conditions for variety. It's all very classic, as you can tell, but it's well-made.

I have gotten a solid 4-5 hours of enjoyment out of Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe and would recommend it without reservation to anyone tempted by virtual air hockey/arcade game fans.

Fair warning: It seems like the progression curve is slow and built around the expectation that you'll play a lot (and I do mean a lot) of this game, which might frustrate the completionist in you if you have a mind to unlock all the equipment and every costume. None of it is required to have fun really, but you can tell that this game has roots in the mobile world just by how they stretched out content.

I do recommend the game if you NEVER played any air hockey or even shufflepuck game - in game or in real life (if you don't know air hockey, try it at least once, it is cool). I do recommend this game too if like me, you remember your teenage time playing Shufflepuck Cafe on Atari... good times. Now, I would not recommend this game just like that, because it is not that great. It is fine. Very repetitive (that's air hockey... better in real life with real friends), very grindy (win 15 times against him - good, now beat him 8 times without loosing - good, now you can duel the new opponent... who tells you to beat the previous one 10 times...), and the table is a TAD too small (actually, there is too much camera inclination), BUT the gameplay is really smooth, the different opponents moves are nice though as too simple as the original game, so, yeah, overall it is enough to pass the time if you buy it on sale.

This game is a top-notch Oculus must-have!! One of the cleanest VR experiences to date, for sure. I have only played in an Oculus Rift DK2, so can only speak to that - but if you have a Rift, do yourself a favor and get this game! You will smile.

I am in love with this game, it's faithful to the old Amiga version (Shufflepuck Cafe) which I played endlessly.Cool gfx, classy music and what seems like millions of upgrades and possibilities.It is rare in this day and age that you get a game that exceeds your expectations and for me, this is one such game.I bought this on special, but in retrospect, I would instantly buy it full price.Thank you developers, you have really made my night.

The only problem I find with this game at all is that when you Alt/Tab, the music continues, beyond that, it's perfect for me!

This game is a nice, relaxed game that plays well. I usually really dislike casual games, but this one is really well done and has a lot of character. The only downside is that the gameplay isn't enough to captivate you for a long time, and can't be played in long sessions without growing tired.

A must-have DK2 game, lots of fun, easy to pick up for most anyone (I'd recommend setting your mouse sensitivity low to get closer to a 1:1 feel). it does get repetitive expecially after 10 hours or so but you'll still feel like playing every other day trying to unlock that last level

This is a very well designed and executed air hockey game, set in a sci-fi (okay, direct rip-off of Star Wars) universe. Lots of different special moves etc. and opponents to duel.

Saying that, although I recommend the game, it is VERY obvious that it is a port from the iPad game - the micro-transactions ("pay £1.25 for 10,000 creds!") have been obviously removed *but* the requirement to grind up the money and tokens has been left in - it can be a little weird to have a game announce "come back in 30 minutes for another token!"